Vocabulary – Catherine Called Birdy #3
Posted by dcole on March 5, 2012
(adj) abominable
(v) coax
(v) confound
(adj) idle
(adj) malignant
(adv)meekly
(n) morsel
(n) notion
(n) remorse
(adj) vengeful
Homework this week: Due Thursday March 8
For the homework due Thursday, you’ll need to do five things…
#1 Write your own definition
#2 Write one synonym
#3 Write one antonym
#4 Write a sentence using the word
#5 Write a journal entry using all ten words
Use the template below to do your vocab. homework
CCB Vocab Template
VIRL in the comments. Good luck!
March 5th, 2012 at 10:47 am
Disturbians
Period 3
Word: coax
Sentence: He remembered watching her from behind, when she didn’t know he was there, marveling as her fingers flew over the smooth vanilla paper to coax images out of hiding.
March 5th, 2012 at 10:50 am
Disturbians
Period 3
Word: Magligant
Sentence: He’d had to tell a thirty-six-year-old woman that the tumor in her breast was malignant.
March 5th, 2012 at 10:51 am
sorry i spelled malignant wrong.
March 5th, 2012 at 10:53 am
Disturbians
Period 3
Word: Morsel
Sentence: “Let me tell you what I did today, dear,” Nicholas said, biting off each word as if it were a bitter morsel.
March 5th, 2012 at 4:29 pm
VIRL for the Disturbians
Period 3
Word: Remorse
Book: A Little Princess
Page: 62
Sentence: “Sara bent and picked her up. Remorse overtook her. She even smiled at herself a very little smile.”
March 5th, 2012 at 4:54 pm
VIRL for the Disturbians
Period 3
Word: coax
Book: Steve Jobs
Page: (sorry, this ebook apparently has no page number. sorry)
Sentence: Woolard was able to coax Jobs to agree that his role as an advisor would be a very active one. Jobs approved a statement saying that he had “agreed to step up my involvement with Apple for up to 90 days, helping them until they hire a new CEO.”
March 5th, 2012 at 6:46 pm
VIRL for Mess Ups
Period 3
Word: Coax
Book: Hunger Games
Page: N/A
“but the pair of them went to work on it, grinding up herbs and coaxing brews down the animal’s throat.”
March 5th, 2012 at 8:16 pm
Lock Rickers
Period 4
Word: Confound
Book: Eldest
Page: 537
Sentence: On one hand, he had made enormous progress with his training, mastering subject after subject that had once confounded him.
March 5th, 2012 at 8:30 pm
Lock Rickers
Period 4
Notion
Eldest
pg. 544
It is far better to be taught to think critically and then be allowed to make your own decisions than to have someone else’s notions thrust upon you.
March 5th, 2012 at 10:06 pm
Virl for Disturbians
Robert Lopez tapped his booze bottle idly against the back of the chair.
Ship Breaker
pgs.56-57 Last sentence on pg 56 and first on page 57.
March 6th, 2012 at 6:48 am
Messup
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Page 549
Remorse
“You have no idea of the remorse Professor Snape felt when he realized how Lord Voldemort had interpreted the prophecy, Harry. I believe it to be the greatest regret of his life and the reason that he returned – “
March 6th, 2012 at 10:08 am
VIRL for the Disturbians
Period 3
Word: Remorse
Book: Harvesting the Heart
Page: 157
Sentence: She was the only person there without a mate, and as Nicholas crossed the room to join her, he felt a quick stab of remorse.
March 6th, 2012 at 10:09 am
VIRL for the Disturbians
Period 3
Word: Coax
Book: Harvesting the Heart
Page: 90
Sentence: He remembered watching her from behind, when she didn’t know he was there, marveling as her fingers flew over the smooth vanilla paper to coax images out of hiding.
March 6th, 2012 at 10:10 am
VIRL for the Disturbians
Period 3
Word: Coax
Book: Harvesting the Heart
Page: 42
Sentence: He’d had to tell a thirty-six-year-old woman that the tumor in her breast was malignant.
March 6th, 2012 at 10:11 am
VIRL for the Disturbians
Period 3
Word: Coax
Book: Harvesting the Heart
Page: 146
Sentence: “Let me tell you what I did today, dear,” Nicholas said, biting off each word as if it were a bitter morsel.
March 6th, 2012 at 10:17 am
VIRL: Vader D. Dumbledore
Book: The Dream Merchant
Pg: 485
Word: Meek
Sentence: Jericho’s voice was unusually gentle and meek: “Yes. Then I suppose I just have to. Again’”
March 6th, 2012 at 4:04 pm
Vocabulary Word: Confound
Book: Brisingr
Author: Christopher Paolini
Page #: 7
Sentence: Roran had only succeeded, as he later explained, because the strength of his passion drove him to extremes tat others feared and avoided, and thus allowed him to confound his enemies.
March 6th, 2012 at 4:36 pm
VIRL for the Disturbians
Period 3
Word: Remorse
Book: New Moon
Page: 380
Sentence: Remorse pinned me against the seat for one long second. What had I just done to Jacob?
March 6th, 2012 at 4:39 pm
VIRL for the Disturbians
Period 3
Word: Vengeance
Book: New Moon
Page: 396
Sentence: But when we started packed her clothes, she woke up with a vengeance.
March 6th, 2012 at 4:40 pm
VIRL for the Disturbians
Period 3
Word: idled
Book: New Moon
Page: 404
Sentence: Jacob’s Rabbit idled by the curb with Jared behind the wheel and Embry in the passenger seat.
March 6th, 2012 at 4:46 pm
VIRL: Vader D. Dumbledore
Period 3
Word: Vengeful
Book: The Dream Merchant
Page: 536
Sentence: But Baz could very well understand what had made Josh so convinced the day before that the Tembe hated the Sipartis with vengeance.
March 6th, 2012 at 5:37 pm
VIRL for the Disturbians
Period 3
Word: remorse
Book: New Moon
Page: 414
Sentence: “It’s a bit late for that, Rose. Save your remorse for someone who believes it.”
March 6th, 2012 at 5:40 pm
VIRL for the Disturbians
Period 3
Word: remorse
Book: New Moon
Page: 417
Sentence: “Something about what she’d seen… about Rosalie’s remorse; Rosalie would never feel remorse for anything that happened to me.”
March 6th, 2012 at 5:43 pm
VIRL for the Disturbians
Period 3
Word: idle
Book: New Moon
Page: 424
Sentence: The plane sat idle on the tarmac while the flight attendants strolled-so casually-up and down the aisle, patting the bags in the overhead compartments to make sure everything fit.
March 6th, 2012 at 6:15 pm
VIRL
Flying Rainbow Sheep
Period 4
Word: Abominable
Book: The Golden Compass
Page: 85
Sentence: Had that abominable monkey found it?
March 7th, 2012 at 4:37 pm
VIRL
Messup
Period 3
Word: remorse
Book: Catching fire
Page: N/A
Sentance: “I feel a pang of remorse about yesterday,…”
March 7th, 2012 at 6:31 pm
VIRL for the Disturbians
Period 3
Word: confounds
Book: New Moon
Page: 476
Sentence: “Don’t be put out, dear one,” Aro said in a comforting tone, placing a powder-light hand on her shoulder. “She confounds us all.”
March 7th, 2012 at 6:33 pm
Safeen
Period 3
Harry Potter and The Goblet Of Fire
Page 605
And am filled with remorse so deep i can barley…
March 8th, 2012 at 10:17 am
Table: Roly-Poly
Period:3
Guardians of Gahoole
Word: meek
Page 12
Ours are rather meek, I guess compared to this…
March 8th, 2012 at 11:26 am
Messup
Per 3
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Idle
Page 308
A smile curled the corners of Riddle’s mouth He continued to stare at Harry, twirling the wand idly.
March 8th, 2012 at 12:24 pm
VIRL
Mess up
Period 3
Book: Syren
Page: 168
“He had concentrated hard on everything on the table and had focused totally on every morsel of the rather good Wizard Tower Hotpot-of-the-Day that Marcia had had sent up.”
March 8th, 2012 at 12:25 pm
THe word was morsel (the post above)
March 8th, 2012 at 4:16 pm
Table: Roly-Poly
Period:3
Guardians of Gahoole: The Journey
Word: morsels
Page 103
“A little snack before we fly,” she said and quickly de-winged it, then served up tasty morsels to the class.
March 8th, 2012 at 5:27 pm
Table: Roly-Poly
Period:3
Guardians of Gahoole: The Journey
Word: confound
Page 183
Confound that owl, Soren thought.
March 9th, 2012 at 8:45 am
Warlock page 27
“His vengeance will destroy us all.”
March 9th, 2012 at 8:46 am
word:notion
My cheeks begin to burn. The very notion that I’m devoting any thought to who I want presented as my lover, given our current circumstances, is demeaning. I let my anger propel me into my greatest demand. “When the war is over, if we’ve won, Peeta will be pardoned.”
pg 20
word: remorse
His tongue flicks over his puffy lips. I search his eyes for the slightest sign of anything, fear, remorse, anger. But there’s only the same look of amusement that ended our last conversation. It’s as if he’s speaking the words again.“Oh, my dear Miss Everdeen. I thought we had agreed not to lie to each other.”
pg 167
both from mockingjay
March 9th, 2012 at 10:35 am
Messup
Per 3
The Great Gilly Hopkins
notion
page 114
“No, you ain’t. If you was thinking of me, you’d never come to me with such a fool notion.”
March 9th, 2012 at 9:01 pm
Group: Bubbly Sheep
Period 4
Title: The Icebound Land
Word: morsel
Sentence: He ate sparingly, noticing, however, that Horace, with a young man’s appetite, wolfed down every morsel that was placed before him.
March 9th, 2012 at 9:36 pm
Group: Bubbly Sheep
Period 4
Title: The Outcasts
Word: idle
Sentence: He knew he wouldn’t be able to stand idly by, unable to help, while he watched that vibrant young person ground into the dirt and destroyed.
March 10th, 2012 at 8:58 pm
VIRL for the Disturbians
Period 3
Word: malignant
Book: Peter And The Starcatchers
Page: 49
Sentence: “Smee,” said Black Stache, savoring his own malignant brilliance. “Water is heavy, right?”